Egg candling and handling device



' w. DAVIS. EGG CANDLING AND HANDLING DEVl'CE.

APPLlCATlON FILED MAY 23. 1921.

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wrnnnn. DAVIS, oneornrnsgrowe.

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' Specification of Letters'Iiatentf 21 219 272 Application filed ma 23,1921. Serial No. 47;,899.

TQa-ZZ who n z't may co /poem, Be it known that I, WILBURDAVIS, acitizenot the United States, and a resident of Collins, in the county ofStory and State-of Iowa, have invented a certain new and 11seful EggCandling and Handling Device, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide anegg. candling and handling,device of simple, durable and inexpensiveconstruction.

More particularly, it is my object to pro-,

vide such a device whereby an entire filler containingthirty-six eggs(the usual num- A further object is to provi .tion with such a fillerholder or support, a

case 'at'onetime, inverted and placed in a .ca-ndling device with thetransparentgmemher: down, sothat the entire thirty-s1xeggs may be;examined 'in thefiller;

de in connectransparent member, having fingers held thereon by resilientgripping elements.

I Still a further object is to provide such a device including thefiller holder and an egg 7 caSe, having two adjacent sides mounted-tobemoved out ofthe-way during the candling operation.

v Withtheseand .otherobje'cts in view, my

invention consists in the construction, arrangement and combination ofthe various parts ofwmy device, whereby the objects contemplated areattained, as hereinafter more fully set forth, pointed out in 'myclaims, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which: I

Figure 1 shows a perspective view of theegg case.

Figure 2 shows a vertical, transverse, sectional view through the sameand through the filler engaging and holding member, the latter being inits inverted position.

Figure 3 shows a detailed, sectional view taken on the line 3-3 ofFigure 2.

Figure 4: shows a perspective view of the resilient fingers device; and

Figure 5- shows a perspective view of the candling mechanism with thefiller support in position thereon.

It has heretofore been quite diflicult to candle a considerablenumberjof eggs atria t me in a satisfaetory way. 11; has therefore beenmy purpose inworking outimy present dev ce to provi zm ans wh r byanentire nller, hold ngfor lnstance'three dozen eggs,

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maybe removed from a case in aneasy and convenient way and supported;oniatrans f parent holder or support injsuch aj waythat the ent re threedozen eggs received in the fillermay be candledin' oneoperation,

In accomplishing such a purpose,., it is necessary to have acase,--two,sidesvof which (or atop and one side) maybe swung'open sov as.to allow access to the fillers and also to provide atransparent-holder. having fingers or the like adapted to be readily.and eas ly sl1d between the edges of the flats and the caseg, g In theaccompanying drawings, I have used the reference numeral 10 to indicategenerally an eggicase having a top 11,-which ,1;

may; be hinged at oneendor removable, and having a side; 12,: which isalso either hinged or removable. The case shown has a central transversepartition;'13'. '7

the tiers of fillers 14: separated by flats 15. r

J On the oppositersides ofQthe partition are InFigure 5, I have shown acandlingd'e vice comprising :a .;su;pporting casing; 16,

which is designed to have an electric light bulbfor other source oflight mounted'therein. The casingrlfi ha'sia shelter the-like 17 showndotted lines around the walls thereof on, the inside, and one wallfisopened above the shelf.

I provide a special transparent tor.

supporting a filler, full of eggs, which comprises a transparent. sheetv on pane ,18, which s longerat one side, and is designed-to be ofsuffi'cient width to fit snugly within one-half of the egg case 10 withone end projecting therefrom. The projecting end of the transparentplate 18 forms a handle. At the end of the plate 18 opposite the loohandle is a series of engaging fingers 19,

preferably, of fiat sheet metal or the like, secured to a resilientchannel 20. The chan nel 20 has its sidewalls so arranged that they tendto spring together, and in the construction of my device the end of theplate 18 opposite the handle end is slipped etween the walls ofthe-channel 20, as

shown in Figure 2, with the plate snugly and trictionally grippedbetween the walls of said channel, and with the fingers 19 projectlng atright angles from the plate.

At each side of the plate 18, I provide one or more fingers 22, whichare frictionally held on the plate 18 by means of resilient grippingfingers 23.

In the practical use of my device, after after the fiat above-thefiller'has been removed. The fingers 1 9 are slipped behind thev fillerand the fingers 22 slide alongside the filler-between the walls of thecase 10 and the filler.

- The filler with the eggs therein and with the neXtlo-wermost fiat isthen pulled, out a short distance, whereupon the operator grasps thefiat, so as to hold the eggs against falling out, and pulls out thefiller with the flat below it.

' The filler and plate 18'are then turned over-with thefiller up and thefiat is removed from the top of the filler, whereupon the plate 18 maybe slid onto the shelf 17 in the candling device 16, and the eggs in thefiller may "then be examined in the usual W X- i fter the eggs have beenexamined, the

plate 18 is removed fromthe casing 16, the Hat is placed on top of thefiller, and the filler and fiat and the plate 18 are then invertedagain, and the filler full of eggs with "the plate thereunder may beslippedinto the egg case 10. I The fingers 22may be adjustedlongitudinally of the plate 18 by sliding the gripping fingers 23, andwill be held in any adjusted position. i

It is obvious that'in order to make the device properly operative,the'fingers 22 and that by means of it, eggs can be candled in thefillers very rapidly and without danger of breakage.

I have found by testing that a transparent plate 18 is much better thanone which has a series of holes therein. A transparent plate also has aflat surface, so that there is less movement of the eggs inthefiller,-where mydevice is used, than where a plate having holes isemployed;

Some changes may be-made in the construction and arrangement of thevarious parts of my device, and it is my intention to cover by myclaims, any modified forms of structure, or use of mechanicalequivalents, which may be reasonably included within their scope.

- I claim as my invention:

1; In a device of the class described, the combination of an egg case,having two sides capable of being removed for permittingac-' cess to theinterior of the case with a transparent plate longer than the egg fillerused in such case, said (plate having at one end and at its sidesfingers projecting at right angles from the plate and adapted to beinserted at the three sides of the filler between thefiller and thewalls of said case by a movement directly downwardly in the case fromthe top toward the bottom thereof.

2. In a device of the class described, the combination of an egg case,having two sides capable of beingremoved for permitting access to theinterior of the case,

egg filler used in such case, said plate having at one end and at itssides, fingers with a transparent plate'longerthankthe-' adapted to beinserted at'the three sides of the filler between the filler and thewalls of said case by a" movement directly downwardly in the case fromthe top toward the Des Moines, Iowa, May 12, 1921. I

WILBUR DAVIS.

